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ReSolute Columbus Day Warehouse Expeditionâ€‹
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Sunday October 9th, 2011
2 PM â€“ 2 AM
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Location: TBA â€“ Brooklyn
Warehouse with indoor / outdoor space
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This Sunday, ReSolute brings you a party of epic proportions, with Kate Simko, Delano Smith and Jen Lusker holding it down on the decks. Joining the party are ReSolute residents Elon and Connie. Â Itâ€™s all happening in a great indoor/outdoor warehouse in Brooklyn (location TBA), so come early, stay late, and get ready for Columbus Day- ReSolute style.
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KATE SIMKO
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Warm, groovy and hypnotic, Kate Simko's music occupies a space between house and techno with a personal voice that sets it apart. Artistically, Simkoâ€™s background helped shape her sound into a well-rounded package: she began as a classically trained pianist who found herself at house and technoâ€™s doorstep in Chicago in the mid 90â€™s. As part of her university degree in music, Simko ventured to Santiago, Chile in 2002. There, her project with Andres Bucci, Detalles, marked her entrance into minimal techno, with the release of their first record on Traum.
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With two Detalles albums and several years under her belt, Simko began cultivating her own distinctive sound that has carved her niche in dance musicâ€™s avante garde. With releases on labels such as Spectral Sound, Ghostly International, and Eklo, Kate's tracks have been licensed to Circo Loco and Berghain, and supported by respected DJ's across the globe. Her standout A/V live sets at festivals and clubs have steadily built her reputation, while her DJ skills earned her a spot in â€œChicagoâ€™s Top 10 DJâ€™sâ€ in XLR8R magazine. A few of the highlight sets include Berghain (Berlin), Fabric (London), Rex Club (Paris), the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, MUTEK (Montreal), Eleven (Tokyo), and D-Edge (Sao Paulo).
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Now in 2011, the highly respected German label Hello? Repeat presents the Chicago-based producerâ€™s captivating journey of creative emotion with her debut full-length album â€˜Lights Out.â€™ Â Recorded in Buenos Aires in 2009 and 2010, â€˜Lights Outâ€™ allowed Kate to explore new ideas and construct a longer story. Kate blurs the lines of house, techno, minimal, and ambient with ease on â€˜Lights Outâ€™ and the album is a dazzling and insightful journey through Kate Simkoâ€™s musical mind.
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DELANO SMITH
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Born in Chicago and raised on Detroit's West side, Delano Smith represents one of the last of a rare group of Detroitâ€™s first house DJs. With his natural ear for the deep and groovy, Delano can lay claim to a legacy that most Detroit jocks cannot. When performing outside of his native city, Delano's unique sets highlight the fact that his skills were forged in an era before the rigid lines of house and techno genres appeared.
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His attention to programming sets that are kinetic, emotional and educational are met with a delivery of the highest class. Having been one of the original young guns personally mentored by Motownâ€™s 1st DJ, Ken Collier, he displays skills entirely unique to this group . His dynamic skill set has made him the real Detroit head's secret favorite. Smith's extended hiatus later in his DJ years was ended spectacularly when the Detroit Beatdown project again highlighted his talent. Teamed with Mike â€˜Agent X' Clark and Norm Talley, the crew began to spread the word of Detroit to fresh audiences, in demand globally and touching down at renowned clubs such as London's Fabric en route.
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On the production front, Delano stands head and shoulders above the rest in crafting alluring, forward thinking and highly danceable grooves. His productions on Third Ear, Sushitech and Still Music have taken up crate spaces with jocks looking to add the perfect blend of soul and energy to their sets. With his own imprint Mixmode debuting in 2003, it continues to release selectively soulful dance floor gems. Both behind the decks and in the studio, Delano's genre boundary defying vision of working a floor is a direct link to the beginnings of the DJ in Detroit, maintaining his integrity today, his hunger shows little sign of abating.
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JEN LUSKER
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Born into a military family in Seoul, Korea, Jen Lusker grew up living in a number of countries and, all the while, taking in the sounds from these diverse landscapes. Upon graduating college Jen moved to NYC, and quickly found herself DJing at many of the city's top dance music venues, including Pacha, Crobar, Spirit, Frying Pan and a base residency at the Sullivan Room.
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Taking cues from techno, house, jazz, minimalism and dub, her productions inhabit a place that is new and refreshing, classic and modern but timeless. Creating music that is intentionally genre-agnostic, her music exists in a place somewhere in between the dance floor and the living room ... but always from the heart.
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